Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-01

Strange that some mote forever
should mar the rays of bliss
Though conscious had never
Yet won so sweet a kiss;
Alas the act Of plumber
So gracefully she bore,
| could not help but wonder,
Had she been kissed before?
Samuel MinturR Peek.
Do any of you know Miss TOmboy? She
is a lively young lady and has no affinity
for well-behaved girls. She can not SIT
still long enough to be lady-like. She
dances at night and plays lawn tennis by
day, and never seems to feel the need of
rest outside her healthy and unbrOken
sleep of none good hours by the clock.
She does we'll all things needing vigOr,
boldness, courage and agility. She climbs
rocks like o goat, swims like fish, rides
like an Amazon, independent of skirt,
and Indifferent of stirrups. She shoots at
mark with wonderful accuracy Of aim
and can climb up smooth tree like the
boys. She angles and takes wasps' nests
with the boys and knuckles down at mar
bles, as well as stands to the wicket as if
she answered to the name of Jack instead
of Jane. She likes nothing so much as to
make herself "a sight" for rags and rents,
according to her old nurses pathetic
lament, though, also, she approves of dress
when she is ION view" rs she calls it,
and likes pretty things with the best.
1t is to be confessed, however, with some
degree of shame, that she does not take
care OF her pretty things when she has
them. A ball dress seldom lasts more than
q couple of nights, and her best walking
dress becomes her worst in less time than
Miss Prim's over the way takes to look as
| if it had been worn at all. Her wardrobe
suffers, but her cheeks gain what her silks
and stuffs and muslins lose, and the fresh
ness of her face makes amends for the de-
struction of her gowns. When at last the
days glad Joy, prolonged into the nights
brisk pleasure, has ended, and the
world goes into torpor and silence,
as she lays her curly head on her
pillow, Miss Tomboy smiles with satisfac-
ton. After all, bed is pleasant place,
she thinks very pleasant when one has
been on ones feet for fifteen hours, with
only the break of sitting down at meals.
And with the smile still about her rosy
mouth, and almost before she has quite set
tied her head on the pillow, she is fast
asleep. There she lies, like great human
flower or like big chld-which is the sarle
warm, flushed, happy in her faint con-
seriousness of delicious rest, like the beasts
and birds and the insects, which, in that
marvellous garden where the sensitive plant
was the favorite child, were
Drowned
In an ocean Of dreams without sound,
WhOse waves ever mark, though they never i'm.
press
The ight sand which paves Inconsistencies"
The other day, in looking over some old
papers which had been in the family for
years, young lady came across an inter
esting remnant of former social days in
Wheeling. 1t is an invitation to New
Years ball, and is printed on sheet of
paper Elk by nine inches, the outer edge
of which is stamped TO give it resem.
blance to lace. The paper is Drowned by
age, aud contains the following: New
Years Eve Ball. The pleasure of your
company is respectfully solicited at the
Melodeon, on New Years Eve, Dec. 81,
1Si9 Managers, w. J. RObb, j. b. Tan
ner, j. Fundenburg, J. Hamilton, ST., J.
F. Wharton, J. F. Barnes, A. Caldwell, J.
Bishop, J. McCOurtney, j. DOnlon, 8.
Rice, j. Yarnall, F. X. BeshOre, W. II.
Houston, +. Nj. Norton, Il. M. PembertOn,
T. II. Williams, w. II. Dorsey, G. f.
Wickham, NJ. Edwards, Jr., b. NJ. Carr,
J. II. Hobbs, S. II. Greer, F.M. Alexander,
J. II. Reed, +. c. Dewey, J. Cummins, s.
Mcdonald, o. 81. Taylor, w. Thompson,
5. CulbertsOn, W. Sallyards, Il. Bloom
field, w. Byerly, J. G. Swearingen, w.
B. Martin, Z. S Springer, NJ. Pollock, d.
Neiswanger, u. Steenrod, Jr., J. Camp
bell; J. L. Clemens, Wheeling, December
10, 1919" Not more than half dozen
of these gentlemen still live, and to them
as well as to others who attended the
ball, the invitation will doubtless recall
many pleasant memories.
The past week has been quite lively in
Wheeling social circles, the leading event
being the hop given by number OF our
most prominent young ladies to their
gentlemen friends. The young gentlemen
treated their lady friends quite we'll the
past season in the way of afford
lug them pleasure in the shape
of numerous hops, and they repaid the IA
vOrsin decidedly pleasant manner. Each
young lady selected the gentleman she
wished to he her escort and invited him
by means of an unsigned note, enclosed in
which was bow of ribbon Of her favorite
color by which he could distinguish her.
The ladies assembled at the hall in charge
of chaperOnes and when the gentlemen ar
rived they drew their fair prizes by means
of the little bow OF ribbon. II was quite
jolly idea. Kramer's full orchestra was
on hand and furnished splendid music,
and the ball room was soon q scene of
gayety as the superbly attired fair sex
and the dark suited galIants of the
town merrily kept time TO the
measures Of the dance. Among those pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Berger, Mr..
and Mrs. I. c. Mofat, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
X. McMechen, Mrs. Frank Hearne, Mrs.
w. l.. McPhail, Mrs. Virginia Cooper, Mr.. |
and Mrs. Frank p. Jepson, Mr.. aud Mrs.
Charles l.. Hobbs, Mrs. J. f. Merriman,
Mrs. Mary Good, Mrs. X. NJ. Delaplaine,
Mrs. T. II. Eccles, Mrs. DIR. George Baird,
Misses Kate Hunter, Virginia PendIeton,
Mamie and Sadie Meade, Laura Cooper,
Louise Cummins, Jennie McPhail, Emily
Campbell, Mary OFT, Mamie Haase, Nellie
Turner, Lydia McMechen, jamie Good,
Jessie Good, of st. Louis, Annie Hogg, of
Cadiz, o., Maude Eecles, Virginia Simp-
son, and Messrs. Hullihen Quarter, Ned
Stalnaker, S. B. HarrisonO II. c. Franz
helm, George Baird. Alex. Laughlin,